Sound Off for Feb. 3, 2013

Published 12:00 am, Saturday, February 2, 2013

Discouraging new reports of skyrocketing new unemployment claims along with a catastrophic plunge in GDP to -0.1 percent spells real trouble for the Obama economy. Last week, initial claims for state unemployment benefits soared by 38,000 to 368,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. In response to this bitter news Barack Obama has ended his jobs council which have been ineffective in creating anything. The large gain in new jobless gains comes on top of a dramatic plunge in consumer confidence that will translate into dramatically lower consumer spending because of significantly higher federal,state, local taxes and Obamacare taxes.

Thank God, we didn't elect John McCain. During recent Senate hearings, he is pro attacking Libya, pro attacking Iran, staying in Iraq forever. Being from Arizona, he probably loves mass killing machines like the automatic weapons, in question. Seems as though he unfortunately, did not learn that war is folly, and his verbal attack- style, is great folly.

Okay the town of Torrington Public Works Department, when are you going to fix the pot holes on Field Street and East Pearl Street. There is a huge pot hole on East Pearl St. When it rains you can not tell it's there. Don't tell me you don't see it. Are you going to pay for the damage to my car? What is going on with the public works department? They don't seem to care about this town anymore. All you see is neglect.

Also another thing, when plowing do you have to drive like maniacs. Is it really necessary to drive so fast on the road that when you plow you shove the snow right on the lawns past the sidewalks.

I think the town of Torrington Public Works Department is lacking responsibility and efficiency.

As the Obama economy staggers toward the cliff more dire economic news as the unemployment rate shot up to 7.9 percent. In reality the unemployment/underemployment rate is 15 percent if all the unemployed that quit searching for jobs were counted. The U.S. economy nose dived to a pre-recession rate of negative -0.2 percent for the 4th Qtr. 2012. Obama owns another notorious record of 8.5 million previously employed Americans who have lost their job and quit looking for a new one during his term in office. In January alone Obama added another 170,000 unemployed that quit looking for employment. No ideas, no plan, no hope is the Obama way.

Immediately after asserting that international terrorism was eliminated, an embarrassed Barack Obama had to backtrack when Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans were murdered by terrorists in Benghazi. Now fresh reports from Ankara, Turkey tell of a terrorist attack by a suicide bomber that killed two in the violent explosion.

In spite of worthless assurances by Obama additional news reports tell a very troubling story of terrorists planning even bolder attacks against U.S. interests and property in Africa. Obama appears unconcerned or naive about the continued rise of international terrorism that is growing daily and sees his appeasement as a sign of weakness.